A couple of weeks ago the Wall Street Journal ran a story explaining the details of the fiscal cliff tax increases. Today it got new life as several bloggers united to mock the graphic that goes with it. Brad DeLong (http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/01/wanted-sf-w-2-kids-10-making-260kyear-weblogging.html) wants to know just how many single mothers with two kids and an income of $260,000 even exist. Xenos (http://readingisforsnobs.blogspot.com/2013/01/these-are-people-wall-street-journal.html) is amused that everybody in the graphic looks as though President Obama "ran over the family dog." And I want to know why even the retired black couple looks so miserable despite the fact that their taxes didn't go up at all.

In any case, I thought I'd help out by demonstrating why all these well-to-do wage slaves feel so brutally treated. It's because their taxes have gone up by a whopping 1-3 percent of their income. Where are the torches and pitchforks when you need them?